Motto, Context, Essay: The Classical Background of Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer EssaysA helpful reference guide to the mottoes of Samuel Johnson's Rambler and Adventurer periodical essays. The author provides the context for each motto Johnson selected and relates the context to the content of the essay to which the motto is affixed. Provides a unique insight into Johnson's way of thinking as as essayist in a specific and detailed fashion. An invaluable aid to students and scholars of Johnson and 18th-century studies in general. |
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... Roman army of Africa , under the command of Cato the Younger . In the course of a march across the desert sands of Libya , subject to terrible heat and furious sand and dust storms , the army approached the Libyan temple of Jupiter ...
... Roman army of Africa , under the command of Cato the Younger . In the course of a march across the desert sands of Libya , subject to terrible heat and furious sand and dust storms , the army approached the Libyan temple of Jupiter ...
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... Roman cor- ruption , internecine warfare and impious slaughter , misuse of wealth , and domestic immorality . The ... Romans . Bar- barian domestic virtue shames the Romans . Johnson's essay concerns marriage , nothing else . His ...
... Roman cor- ruption , internecine warfare and impious slaughter , misuse of wealth , and domestic immorality . The ... Romans . Bar- barian domestic virtue shames the Romans . Johnson's essay concerns marriage , nothing else . His ...
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... Roman immorality and decadence , furnishes mottoes for three of Johnson's essays ( Rambler 18 , 58 , and 195 ) . Domestic immorality is castigated early in the ode , which concludes with an attack on a greedy father and his effete son ...
... Roman immorality and decadence , furnishes mottoes for three of Johnson's essays ( Rambler 18 , 58 , and 195 ) . Domestic immorality is castigated early in the ode , which concludes with an attack on a greedy father and his effete son ...
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